MAC CRASh?

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daffyracers03

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I have had an ibook for a year and a half and two weeks ago something happened... i was using the computer as regularly and suddenly the entire screen turned grey and a box came on saying that i need to restart my computer in four different languages. What does this mean?
I have already done an Erase and Install twice but it keeps on popping up...

I am not sure why this is happening... its too new for the logic board to be screwed up already.. no?
 
The screen you are getting is called a kernel panic and generally it is not a good sign.

So, you have already done an erase and restore of the system and it still kernel panics every time at boot up?

Have you added any additional ram lately?
 
tlarkin said:
The screen you are getting is called a kernel panic and generally it is not a good sign.

So, you have already done an erase and restore of the system and it still kernel panics every time at boot up?

Have you added any additional ram lately?
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I dont think its a kernel panic. I've seen kernel panics and they look jumbled and my sscreen is clean and only says restart. Kernel panics, from what i've heard and seen usually have huge screen with lots of crap written all over. in additon to that, i didnt add any memory since i got my mac laptop. ohh yea i only used about 57 GB of 100 GB.

The first time it happened I was luanching the iTunes app (hope this helps)
 
copy the message on the box and search google,, It always works for me,,

you will probably find a forum that has a tread with that problem, or some sort of troubleshooting website.
 
daffyracers03 said:
I dont think its a kernel panic. I've seen kernel panics and they look jumbled and my sscreen is clean and only says restart. Kernel panics, from what i've heard and seen usually have huge screen with lots of crap written all over. in additon to that, i didnt add any memory since i got my mac laptop. ohh yea i only used about 57 GB of 100 GB.

The first time it happened I was luanching the iTunes app (hope this helps)
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The gray multi lingual screen is a kernel panic that is telling you the system has completely crashed. If you can boot into single user mode (cmd + S) or into safe mode (hold shift at boot) you can start browsing through the error log in the /var/log directory.

So, does the system boot up into the OS as of now? I was under the impression it crashes at boot? The next time it crashes and you have to reboot you can open up terminal.app under /Applications/Utilities and type this simple code:

Code: 
tail -150 /var/log/system.log | more

This will display the last 150 lines in your system.log file which should keep track of your system crashes. Copy/paste it here.

If itunes is causing the crashes you can also use this code in the terminal and then copy/paste it here.

Code: 
cat /var/log/system.log | grep itunes

Copy/paste those if you can.
 
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